Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20

/ Tor drinks, and little care need be given
to dilecacies such as sauces and cakn.
Men who work hardest care least for
these. 1t is nourishment for strength
rather than something to tickle the pal
ate that they most require.
RED CLOVER.
| Prof. Halstead of Iowa has this good
word for red clover:
cover large areas of pasture and
meadow, where all else is seemingly
dead, the red clover is green and grow
ing. The great trouble is that clover
is not half abundant enough within the
region Of drouth. Glover is not fully
appreciated, and if this prolonged dry
spell will lead to a better understanding
OF clover and it's merits, the drouth will
not have been without its valuable les
son. While the bluegrass and timothy
have shallow roots, the clover sends its
feeders down many feet into the sub
soil. It does almost as well as the pig
weeds and spusley,' which is praise
enough for SO valuable forage plant. y
/ BOYS IN THE HARVEST FIELD.
The haryestfeld is not proper place
for boy. IF the work there is well
done it takes a man to the utmost.
Either the boy must injure himself or
| his employers. If too ambitious he will
overtax his strength and ssbreak down.
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not do his work we'll. Inferior work is
| not profitable; in few places is it less so
than in the harvest fields. If the grain
is poorly bound or shocked the loss is
many times what would be the cost Of
having the work done well. A stout
man, competent to do a full day work
and do it well, will cost only one 81
more than a boy. He will cost more by
the price of a bushel of wheat or two Of
oats, yet the boy will bind or shock in
such a way that there will be loss of
several bushels of wheat or oats. A bum
die loosely tied loses grain every time it
is handled, and it spoils the shock, lead
ing to the damage of it and several 9th
er bundles.
have noticed that where boy was
employed in the harvest field the other
laborers shirked their work. IF bum
die was loosely tied or shock poorly
built it could be blamed on the boy. I
have often thought that the chief office
of the boy in the harvest field was to
bear the sins of others. And those sins
will be greater than if there is no boy to
bear them. The farmer will lose more
than the difference between boys wages
by the less value of the work done BY
the men.-JoHN M. STAHL.
THE FORESTRY CONGRESS.
The fact is significant at this time
that the above named association will
meet at Springfield, Ill, Sept. IA, Is
and 16, 1887, in response to a special
invitation rendered by the Legislature
of that State. It is also significant that
the Legislature of Nebraska, by special
resolution, rendered the society the hos
pitality of the State and the free use of
the Hall of Representatives, for their
annual session of 1887. The able Sec
rotary, Prof. B. E. Ternow, says: ..We
are few in number, poor in funds, with
out a personal object, but we work
faithfully, with the conviction that we
forward the interests of our country.
We appeal to those who can raise them
selves above the level Of selfish motives
in solving this national problem to aid
our work by joining us, lending their
moral spportu and financial aid to
worthy object.
Among the devoted members of the
congress are several who have not miss
ed a meeting since the organization of
the society. This devotion to the cause
will be better understood with knoWl-
edge Of the fact that the past three meet
ings have been held at Montreal, Canada,
St. Paul, Mimi, and Denver, Colorado,
and that members pay all expenses of
travel and the Incidental and publishing
expenses of the congress. This devoted
band work with the hope that sooner or
later wise legislation in Congress and
the States will be secured, relative to
the preservation of primitive forests on
mountains and the head waters of
streams, and forest planting over large
open areas in great blocks as practiced
in all the continental portions of east
and west Europe. They will unitedly
agreew with Father Clarkson that we need
not look to local sloughs, ponds or
forests for our water supply. Yet they
will unitedly agree that the wise distri-
button of large..areas of forests over great
interior sections, occupied and cultiva-
ted by man, may influence the prevailing
direction of winds, and directly or in
directly bring about a more regular
precipitation of the moisture from far
remote oceans, CULTS, OIL lakes. We
earnestly wish that every legislator Of
our land could listen to the papers and
discussions of our forestry Congress,
and then read with care s.Earrh as
modified by human action,'' by Hon.
Geo. 2. Marsh, and s.The EARTH - by
Mr.. Elisee Reclus.-Ec.
GLEANINGs.
The best price for pork is the early
price.
IF the garden can not be kept
in good order it is too large.
Prof. Riley, of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington, predicts there
will be grasshoppers for the northwest
next year.
Sow rye on any odd lot from which
all early crop has been taken, rather
than let it lie idle, even if the rye must
be plowed down in the Spring.
An elevator was recently hnilt in